On the very day that we get the the first picture of  a lack hole, we are reminded that education ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

A baseball field in Connecticut is in shambles after 25 gallons of gas were dumped on a wet infield and set on fire in order to dry it out.

The hope to dry out the infield before a Saturday Ridgefield High School baseball game resulted in flames shooting 15 feet into the air and an estimated $50,000 worth of damage.

It appears that about 15 to 20 parents took turns dumping the 25 gallons of gas on the field while more than a 100 people stood around and watched.

Plus there was a crowd of about 100 parents watching, with their children.

So now the entire infield has to be dug out and taken to a toxic waste dump, or in the alternative, served for dinner to whatever genius thought up this plan.

There were at least 100  people there and not one single one of them thought, “Hey, let’s look up gasoline, fire, dry infield on google and see how it’s done.”

Next time, they should bring extension cords and hair dryers.

We let these people vote, y’all.

Thanks to EJ for the heads up.

The first ever picture of a black hole and the inside of Donald Trump’s heart.

Read about it here. It really is a big deal.

Y’all, Devin Nunes got his feelings hurt again.

You know that Nunes is suing a Republican consultant, Twitter, and some anonymous people on Twitter for hurting his feelings over things they said about him.

Now he’s suing his hometown newspaper for a headline that says,

The accompanying story, oddly enough, is about a winery partly owned by Nunes putting on a fundraiser that had a yacht, cocaine and prostitutes and one of the people at the party is suing the winery.

They reported the fact that a lawsuit had been filed and the basis for the lawsuit.  All of that is public record.

So Nunes sues the newspaper.  He knows he cannot win, but suing people makes him feel better about himself and the unethical things he does.   .

Okay, Twitter went wild.  You can click right here to read some of the funniest things said about Nunes and his lawsuit.  They are trying to make it trend and they are #1 now. Nobody likes Nunes.

Especially Twitter.

Thanks to Kyle and SGray for the heads up.

In one of the latest entries into the Encyclopedia of Gleeful Cruelty and Dickishness, Trump announced last week that he is stopping immigration at the southern border because “the country is full; sorry”.  He can’t do that, of course, and the courts will stop him (again), but this is his campaign strategy for 2020, keeping the entire country whipped up into a lather while Heinrich Himmler Stephen Miller cooks up more nasty things to do to innocent people trying to save themselves and their families from the violence caused (or made worse) by US foreign policy in Latin America.

New York Times

Not only is this yet again new policy completely unnecessary and gaslighting of the worst kind,  Trump’s declaration is 100% false.  The country is not full; as a matter of fact, the work force is shrinking in many parts of the country.  As the country ages, the economy will suffer from lack of workers.  The NY Times published a story about this just this am.  This just another lie piled onto the Mount Everest of lies that Trump has built the the GOP has allowed to happen.

C’mon 2020.

Last night with all the other networks going full steam on the purge at the Department of Homeland Security, Fox News just forgot to mention it.  Not totally, but close.

Hummmm … isn’t Fox always in the forefront on immigration news?

Instead, they ran reruns of the Clinton impeachment and announced that they have hired Sherlock Holmes to find Obama’s birth certificate.

Georgia, y’all.

Georgia House Speaker and avid Republican David Ralston, a lawyer, got himself in a bit of a twist this year.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution revealed that he had extensively used his legislative privilege to keep legal cases from going to trial.  Lawyers in the legislature have the privilege of postponing their dockets while the legislature is in session or on business.  Members frequently sign-on and are paid to be co-counsel so the cases don’t get to trial for years.  Ralston got caught with his hand in the horrible-injustice-to-victims jar.

Well, Honey, that just got the whole Georgia Republican party in a tizzy. The problem wasn’t with their elected official, the problem was with … oh yeah, you got it: the messenger.

So the Republicans proposed some legislation to fix nasty reporters who stick their noses in important people’s business.  They think reporters should have ethical standards laws.  Written, of course, by the very people reporters write about.

As a sidenote:  most of you know I was a political columnist for a local newspaper for many years. Someone who was miffed at me for writing something they didn’t like asked my boss exactly what was my job description. She responded without missing a beat, “To go find out what people are doing and make them stop it.”

That’s what we do, so this proposed legislation, where you can even be certified as an ethical reporter (hello Fox News!), consists of all manner of things meant to trample the First Amendment, including …

If approved, the bill would also mandate that anyone interviewed by the media would be able to request and receive copies of photographs and audio and video recordings taken by reporters and photographers. Such copies would have to be provided free of cost, even though state and local governments are allowed to charge the public for copies of any documents it provides.

If a media outlet refuses to provide the copies, it would be subject to a lawsuit and a civil penalty, under the bill.

And the real kicker?  The Georgia Legislature exempted itself from the Open Records Act so you cannot get a damn thing from them.

If I slander you in the damn newspaper, you have a remedy: sue me. Our ethical standards are truth, justice, and the American way, by gawd.

I kinda suspect these Georgia fellas skimmed over the First Amendment in their excitement to get to the Second, which makes their winkies bigger.  The First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” That that includes Georgia.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads up.